{"id":492200,"date":"2026-02-20T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492200\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:37:14","slug":"eddie-hearn-reveals-month-for-anthony-joshua-return-after-car-crash-that-killed-his-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492200\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hearn reveals month for Anthony Joshua return after car crash that killed his friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Joshua has set his sights on returning to the ring in July, according to promoter Eddie Hearn, as the former heavyweight world champion continues his recovery from a devastating car accident.<\/p>\n

The collision near Lagos in December claimed the lives of two members of Joshua’s inner circle: his long-serving strength coach Sina Ghami and personal trainer Latif “Latz” Ayodele.<\/p>\n

Joshua himself required hospital treatment over the New Year period before returning to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The tragedy struck less than a fortnight after his sixth-round knockout victory over Jake Paul in Miami, casting significant doubt over whether the British fighter would continue his career.<\/p>\n

Hearn revealed to BoxingScene that the initial schedule has been abandoned entirely.<\/p>\n

“Originally, the plan with AJ was for him to fight in March and then fight Tyson Fury in August. That’s not happening. He’s not fighting Tyson Fury next,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

The promoter confirmed that Joshua remains unable to begin training preparations.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Joshua has set his sights on returning to the ring in July, according to promoter Eddie Hearn, as the former heavyweight world champion continues his recovery from a devastating car accident<\/p>\n

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“He’s going to come back, I believe, in late summer, but physically he’s not yet in a position to return to camp,” Hearn explained.<\/p>\n

“So, I’m planning, but he’s just resting and preparing. I’m looking at options to get him back in the ring in July time.”<\/p>\n

Hearn added that Joshua’s return to training could happen within the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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“But we’ll only know if that’s a real possibility when he returns to camp, which will hopefully be in the next couple of weeks or a month,” he noted.<\/p>\n

Despite ruling out an immediate showdown between the two British heavyweight icons, Hearn has not closed the door on the contest entirely.<\/p>\n

“Every fight’s dangerous coming off what he has come off,” Hearn continued.<\/p>\n

The promoter indicated that a meeting between Joshua and Fury remains a genuine possibility further down the line, with the Gypsy King next in action in April.<\/p>\n

“We’re open to the Tyson Fury fight, but probably that’s more likely end of the year maybe early 2027,” Hearn said.<\/p>\n

Fury, meanwhile, is preparing to face knockout specialist Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 11 April.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Joshua could still fight Tyson Fury further down the line, according to Eddie Hearn<\/p>\n

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The bout will mark Fury’s fifth emergence from retirement, and he revealed that Joshua’s accident played a pivotal role in his decision to return.<\/p>\n

“The biggest turning point in this comeback for me was the tragedy that happened with Anthony Joshua,” Fury said.<\/p>\n

The 37-year-old explained that news of the crash reached him while holidaying in Thailand with his family over Christmas.<\/p>\n

“I hear all that bad news that’s gone on and I thought, you know what, life is very short, very precious and very fragile,” Fury said.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow is a mystery, we have to live for today. And me living for that day, I made my mind up there and then that I’m going to come back to boxing – because it’s something that I love, I’m passionate about and that I’ve always been in love with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Joshua has set his sights on returning to the ring in July, according to promoter Eddie Hearn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[8075,64,63,802,44,13296,588,85],"class_list":["post-492200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-news","tag-sgg","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}